Because of the enoumous amount of driver partitions on Apple's drives and the fact that many new machines are now SATA (max of 15 partitions)... lvm2 is maybe the only escape route left, to have these features: -1 Installed OSX -1 swap -2 root (one for daily use , one for testing new Gentoo releases) -1 Separate home (so you don't need to move stuff around when updrading) -1 boot to keep all the kernels around a central place -1 bootstrap for Newworld That's 7 partitions, then add all the Apple junk and 128M of free space just in case mister OSX wants some extra drivers. and you are way over 15. with lvm it allows you to keep sane. Example with lvm2: =================================== /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 64 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 120 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 176 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 232 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda9 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 1824 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot 524288 @ 3424 (256.0M) Linux native /dev/hda11 Apple_HFS OSX 20971520 @ 527712 ( 10.0G) HFS /dev/hda12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root1 31457280 @ 21499232 ( 15.0G) Linux native /dev/hda13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root2 31457280 @ 52956512 ( 15.0G) Linux native /dev/hda14 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 lvm2 32796448 @ 84413792 ( 15.6G) Linux native
Should I create a separate bug for PPC64 ?
well, hold off on the separate bug for now -- let's see what the two teams make of the request first.
It's possible to add this to the livecd, but we are probably unable to test reliably (lacking systems we can repartition). I can have a look for 2004.3.
For what it's worth I have both of my ppc since(2004.1) and ppc64(since2004.2) system running lvm2, swap and home directory are on lvm2.
Actually, we should be doing this for all arches to have proper support.
We have been including lvm2 in the template for a while. Is there any reason why it isn't on the 2004.2 release?
This is definitely in the x86 spec files. Pieter: if you can add this to the PPC release, we can consider this one RESOLVED.
verified for 2004.3
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
